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Issue 4 - jan 2009        
 
 
Sign up for the FREE Webinar on 'Successfully Navigating the Carbon Offsetting Standards Maze'
 
Webinar hosted by EcoSecurities and 2 Degrees, with speakers from CCAR, Environmental Defense Fund, Gold Standard and the Voluntary Carbon Standard.
 
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Organisations who are contemplating becoming ‘Carbon Neutral’ are faced with a myriad of choices with regards to offset standards. It’s a confusing issue and one for which there is no right or wrong answer. It all depends on the brand, culture and sustainability goals of each individual organisation.
 
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  The Forest Carbon Offsetting Survey
 
EcoSecurities is partnering with other forestry experts such as the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA), Conservation International and ClimateBiz, to produce an important piece of research evaluating the key issues facing buyers or potential buyers of carbon offsets from forestry projects, the results of which will be published and freely available towards the end of March 2009.

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  Paint it green
 
Paint it green is a really interesting blog article on the CO2emissions weblog discussing the complications associated with marketing a company’s green credentials without being accused of “greenwashing”!
 
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  WRI Becomes Pioneer in Global Carbon-Offset Market
 
 
The World Resources Institute (WRI) is now one of the first U.S. based organisations to purchase Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) from the global compliance market established by the Kyoto Protocol.

“A robust compliance market is necessary to fight global warming,” said Manish Bapna, WRI’s managing director. “Our offset purchases are part of a ‘walk the talk’ ethic that we have at WRI. They also afford a number of learning opportunities for the organization.”

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